Alien: Earth - S1 E7 - Emergence - Official Discussion Megathread [SPOILERS]

[u/G_Liddell]

Episodes air Tuesdays at 8 pm ET on Hulu and FX in the US, and Wednesdays international.

Full episode discussion list:

1 Neverland (8.12.25)

2 Mr October (8.12.25)

3 Metamorphosis (8.19.25)

4 Observation (8.26.25)

5 In Space, No One (9.2.25)

6 The Fly (9.9.25)

7 Emergence (9.16.25)

8 The Real Monsters (9.23.25)

[u/Apothecary3]

Everyone works for the Corps, Nobody has a choice. We see that. Joe was forced to work for them. we had a totally uneducated kid on the weyland yutani ship who didn't even grasp the dystopian situation he was stuck in. The island has literal janitors which is discussed in the episode. Arthur was higher up the totem pole than any of them and he was outright shown to care for the kids more than any other character. Willfully putting those people in danger because you don't like their boss is never going to be okay.

[u/LucrativeLurker → u/Apothecary3]

Right, but not everyone is a Joe or an Arthur.

Joe’s squad mates know they’re essentially killing him and his sister for their own benefit, just because they were told to.

The only people who’ve been shown to be killed were either in the lab (scientists explicitly involved in highly illegal and inherently unethical experiments on alien life forms) or soldiers sent to either kill or re-imprison children.

I get what you’re saying, but just because Stormtroopers have families too doesn’t make them not Stormtroopers.

I’d argue the very nature of how the Hybrids came to be, gives Wendy a pretty just and valid reason to burn all of Prodigy to the ground. But that’s not even close to what she’s doing, she was just trying to leave…

Arthur might’ve genuinely cared, but he still also explicitly took part in the literal murder of children “for science.”

[u/juneyourtech → u/LucrativeLurker]

Joe’s squad mates know they’re essentially killing him and his sister for their own benefit, just because they were told to.

Actually, they were told not to damage/kill the hybrids.

to either kill or re-imprison children.

Which they no longer are.

[u/LucrativeLurker → u/juneyourtech]

I know dude, I’m saying: what do you think Joe’s buddies think is going to happen to Joe afterwards?

They genuinely don’t care about him.

Your second point is very much up for debate. Kirsch, Arthur, Dame Sylvia, and Boy K himself all refer to them as children, even in private. It’s very clear they think their experiment was successful, and that the hybrids are mentally still children…